Mississippi

All my life, I ain't ever been a lucky man Saw the back of my daddy's hand Lost your mama to the promised land In my time, I ain't ever had a thing that's mine 'Til they handed me a baby fine My little girl There are only two things I know I get ugly when the whiskey flows Wanted you to know I love you so And I would kill before I let you go Taking off for Mississippi Wearing someone else's name Brought you in this world and I Can take you from it just the same If you leave for Mississippi I will beat you at your game Brought you in this world and I Can take you from it just the same My dear one Heard you whispering your plans to run Off to marry some rich man's son Bet he's never met a poor man's gun In the darkness you could not see The drunken devil instructing me Two bullets in a crimson sea Now I'm certain that you'll never be Taking off for Mississippi Wearing someone else's name Brought you in this world and I Can take you from it just the same If you leave for Mississippi I will beat you at your game Brought you in this world and I Can take you from it just the same Grief and sin, when the righteousness of you sets in And the blood in my veins begins to ramble on Now I know we can stand and judge the execution man But we all have to make a trembling stand before the sun Maple tree, can your branches carry me? Before the war, before the wine Before I stole what wasn't mine Can you bring my baby back to me?